Mashup Mocumentary

I mentioned in a post on Google+ a few days ago the concept of doing our mashup project somewhat like a mocumentary in which we can show the process of creating our mashup project and then show the final mashup project at the end, in a similar manner as the mocumentary, The Five Obstructions .

The Five Obstructions is a very sophisticated mashup. Back in 1967, Jørgen Leth directed a short film called "The Perfect Human." 

Then 36 years later in 2003 Leth along with another renowned Danish director, Lars von Trier did an interesting project to remix "The Pefect Human." In this mocumentawry, von Trier challenges Leth to remix his original short film five different times, each time based on a certain set of restrictions. For example, in the  first obstruction, von Trier sends Leth to Cuba and sets his first seemingly impossible rule: to make a film with shots that are no longer than twelve frames at a time.

We see the mocumentary portion, but then also the actual products that Leth makes. Meanwhile, in the process of showing this film-making process, the film actually tells a story with a point and meaning behind it, bringing you to realize that this film isn't actually a straight-out documentary but rather a scripted mocumentary. Here's the trailer for the film to get more of the general idea:

Now, how does this relate to the Monster Mashup?

Dr. Burton suggested the notion that our project of mashing up Frankenstein is in a way like the monster of Frankenstein itself: it's taken from various sources and put together in a new way to give it new life. Thus, we, in a way, are like Dr. Frankenstein and could potentially do a mocumentary of our process of creating Frankenstein (i.e. our project/video) in order to show the same themes and principles that Dr. Frankenstein learns and that we learn from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, applied to our modern audience.

This would allow us to be true to the themes of the original Frankenstein while additionally presenting our own mashed up monster video of Frankenstein, however we decided to do it.

I'm not saying that this is necessarily what we need to do, but it's just a thought.